Posted on 05/07/2019 11:43:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Donald Trump has signed off on a new immigration plan being spearheaded by senior adviser and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner that appeared to receive a positive reception from Republican senators briefed on it Tuesday.
A senior administration official told reporters after the meeting that the president had approved the effort to overhaul America's immigration system and increase border security last week and that it should now be considered "the President Trump plan."
Kushner is working to finalize a plan with two major components: Border security measures that would include efforts to secure ports of entry and a package of immigration proposals that would create a more "merit-based" system giving preference to those with job skills rather than relatives of immigrants already in the country. Under the plan, the same number of immigrants would be permitted to enter the country, but the composition would change.
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‘...that appeared to receive a positive reception from Republican senators’
Worrisome. There must be Amnesty buried in it.
It requires a basis of merit. Racism.
Withholding judgement until more is known.
But I am mindful that the core purpose of the Trump presidency, the reason he was elected, was to stop the third-world transformation of our homeland.
If you go around Europe...looking at immigration practices, and failed visa/asylum applications, the bulk of failed applicants are burger-flipper types (those that came with no real education or job background). Even if you did just twelve months of nursing school...that was way better than burger-flipper status.
If there is going to be immigration, it needs to involve a ‘door’ and you need to prove some qualities that will help in the job search. We have more than enough burger-flippers right now.
Besides, flipping burgers causes global warming, since the cows were alive once, farting away.
NOT GOOD. Amnesty-loving Kushner should not be anywhere near this. We did not vote for him, he is not helping Trump.
Maybe they can get a package all coordinated and wrapped up among Republicans, to run on it in 2020. Then if Republicans take the House, it will be ready to go.
Can’t see Dems cooperating on anything that is any good.
And I bet you could find a bunch of 3rd world Christians who would be hard working and become great Americans.
If there IS any unskilled labor let in, let it be these people.
You’ve read it?
I read some discussion earlier this evening and that mentioned amnesty.
And none of the discussions mention eVerify.
Weren’t you making the case last week that POTUS should give up on building the wall because it’s too late (i.e. we’ve already lost the war on illegals)? Everify is meaningless without the wall, which is being built by the way.
The only thing I know about Kushner is that his last advice was to tell Trump to stop trolling Dems on Twitter.
Kid’s not too.savvy.
The same number of legal immigrants each year?
It’s been over 1 million per year for almost 10 years.
Plus, we have averaged 700,000 new immigrant citizens per year for the last decade - they vote 80% for the Democrat Party.
If you love this plan by the Royal Couple, you just go nuts for their Middle East Peace Plan ...
...... baloney
“they vote 80% for the Democrat Party.”
True on average, but there are significant differences among sub-groups. Mexicans and Central Americans break very strongly for the Dems, and they make up of the bulk of the illegals. Mexico gets the single largest number of legal immigrant visas each year (family reunification policies).
But the most strongly Republican demographic are Cuban-Americans (although they have been moderating somewhat).
Within groups of the same Country of origin, further variation exists, based on factors like age, income/net worth, religion, education, and so on.
Just like gerrymandering a Congressional district, immigration criteria could be fine-tuned to deliver a pretty predictable mix of of D or R votes.
But even just broadly reorienting to a merit-based system would naturally produce a much more balanced political profile among the immigrant population.
Is Jared the Moshiach?
How about shut down all immigration until Trump’s second term ends?
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